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...football correspondent, Halberstam analyzed and criticized the character of his subjects. His September 1952 account of “the sudden departure” (read: firing) of Yale’s 300-pound coach is just one example...
Corker and Kirby, along with the mayor of Southwark, snipped the ribbon with a pair of giant scissors. And Southwark Council Leader Nick Stanton inaugurated the tap, ordering a pint of Guinness with a five-pound note...
...called “the story of a very large man who destroys a very small country.” In “Absurdistan,” which was named one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times, Misha Vainberg, the 325-pound son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, travels from his hometown of St. Leninsburg to New York and then to the titular country in search of his father’s love, a U.S. visa, excessive amounts of exotic food, and eventually, his own identity. After reading aloud...
...focused on ringing the largest bell, a 13-ton mammoth nicknamed “Mother Earth.” During yesterday’s practice, Ogryzkov noticed that student Molly J. Hester ’08 used earplugs to dampen the bellowing sounds from the 700-pound clapper of “Mother Earth.” Since Ogryzkov does not use earplugs, Hester said he was “a real bell ringer.” Responding with the help of a translator, Ogryzkov replied, “I might not only become a real bell ringer, but also...
...seem to realize that it is not in their interest to keep undermining and embarrassing those in the Bush Administration who want to find a negotiated solution," says Einhorn, now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "In for a penny, in for a pound. The Administration has no choice at this stage but to be patient a few days longer and see if the North Koreans will comply...